This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
It's summertime, so we felt we had to start our show with a scene from the iconic summer vacation movie where in the 1980s, the Griswolds are packed into their station wagon.
It's pouring rain.
Everything has gone wrong.
They're on this disastrous road trip to a moose centric theme park.
The wife and kids suggest that it's perhaps time to just go home.
I don't want to be in the car anymore.
I want to go home.
Clark, under the circumstances, I wouldn't mind.
If we just went home.
But the dad Chevy Chase has other ideas.
We're 10 hours from the fun park and you want to bail out?
Well, I'll tell you something.
This is no longer a vacation.
It's a quest.
It's a quest for fun.
I'm gonna have fun, and you're gonna have fun.
We're all gonna have so much fun, we'll need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles.
I gotta be crazy.